On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not > installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude with > 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says to use seahorse. I can > install seahorse, but must be something else that is causing the > problems. now that you mention it, this triggers my memory. I have always had to install seahorse to solve this problem. And seahorse is apparently a front end for gnome-keyring or > gnome-keyring-daemon, but those aren't installed either. gnome-keyring may not be in its own distinct package. it may be provided by some other gnome-[something] package that contains a bunch of stuff. I went into > Users and Groups where I am listed, but I couldn't find any settings > for password, so maybe that's not where I should be looking. > > I don't think changing your user account's password will help. you need to change the keyring password (which is frequently the same as the login password for convenience, but is not necessarily). this is what seahorse allows you to do -wes
